What Is CRE, and What Does It Have to Do With SRE?

    Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, an engineering practice formalised and named by Google, has helped many organisations maintain their platforms and ensure application performance and reliability,...

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    Incident Management: 9 Great Resources to Tackle Unexpected Problems

    As Site Reliability Engineers, or SREs, we spend our days (and sometimes nights and weekends) making sure the platforms we oversee run smoothly. We also follow careful protocols for responding when so...

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    Isn’t SRE Just DevOps?

    This is the conclusion of a three-part blog series. For more information, request our free e-book, SRE: The Cloud Native Approach to Operations. If you’ve been following parts 1 and 2 of this blog ser...

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    What Does SRE Have to Do With Cloud Native?

    This is part 2 of a three-part blog series on Site Reliability Engineering. You can read Part 1 here. Part 3 is here. To learn more, request a free copy of the e-book on SRE from which this was excerp...

    What SRE Is—and How It Helps You Keep Innovating

    This is the start of a three-part blog series on Site Reliability Engineering. To learn more, request a free copy of the e-book on SRE from which this was excerpted. Almost all enterprises nowadays lo...

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    What We've Learned from Launching a Runbooks Project

    Back in 2017, I wrote on my personal blog about Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the World’s Busiest Gambling Sites. A lot of it focussed on runbooks, or checklists, or whatever ...

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    Kubernetes Operators Explained

    Have you ever wondered how effective Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams manage complex applications successfully? In the Kubernetes ecosystem, there is only one answer: Kubernetes Operators! In ...

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    All About Unikernels: Part 2, Two Different Approaches, MirageOS and Rumprun

    This blog post is the conclusion of a series. In Part 1 of this blog series about unikernels, I explained what unikernels are, and their role in reducing resource usage within operating systems and ma...

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    All About Unikernels: Part 1, What They Are, What They Do, and What’s New

    This blog post is part of a two-part series. In this blog post I’d like to provide an overview of what unikernels are, how they fit in the cloud computing landscape and what projects are driving the t...